Re: training as a means of advocacy?

peter_e@gmx.net (Peter Eisentraut) writes:
> Scott Paine wrote:
>> But, if you want to attract the attention of a large segment of
>> industry consisting of people [...] who do not have huge budgets,
>
> There's the rub.  Why would anyone want to attract those people?  Sure,
> we're all humanists and we like to help people, but training and
> tutoring is extremely expensive, and the way you phrase it it doesn't
> sound like a good value proposition.

I had someone come by with a perhaps-relevant proposal that *would*
involve training and tutoring, but it would involve a concommittant
goal that those being trained would have, as specific responsibility,
the requirement to work to help the project.  The point would NOT be
merely to learn SQL...
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